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Do biofuels cause famine? EU President opens probe Culprit sought for higher food prices Environment • 25 Apr 10:58	Colliding galaxies mark Hubble anniversary New set of galactic pile-up snaps released Space • 24 Apr 15:24	Brown gov will make 'big commitment' to carbon capture Big as in small Environment • 24 Apr 11:24
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EU plans to boost organ donor numbers With region-wide card and 24/7 hotline Biology • 23 Apr 11:03	The American way of bioterror - an A-Z of ricin crackpots Homebrew poison of choice to the hard of thinking Biology • 22 Apr 13:09	South Koreans clone sniffer dog Canadian labrador retriever x 7 Biology • 22 Apr 10:15
PETA offers $1m for test tube chicken Cock without the a-doodle-doo Biology • 22 Apr 01:07	Korean astronaut recounts 'ballistic' Soyuz re-entry 'At first I was scared', admits Yi So-Yeon Space • 21 Apr 13:21	US watchdogs threaten vanity gene testers Crack down on DNA crackers Biology • 21 Apr 13:19
Scottish Government scuppers Lewis wind farm plan Island's wetlands spared the turbines Environment • 21 Apr 13:01	Biofuel backlash prompts Brussels back-pedal Corn-based fuel becoming a hot potato Environment • 21 Apr 10:53	ISS Expedition 16 crew back on terra firma Soyuz capsule touches down in Kazakhstan Space • 21 Apr 08:57
Cow turds fuel Blighty's hydrogen filling station embrace Birmingham Uni fills up on brown gas Environment • 18 Apr 10:04	Schoolboy's asteroid-strike sums are wrong German kid saw 1 in 450 chance of Apophis apocalypse Space • 16 Apr 11:06	X-48B mini flying-wing drone prototype resumes testing NASA/Boeing mantacraft model pulls in slats Science • 16 Apr 08:02
Tesla Motors in dirty-tricks suit against Valley electrocar rival Elon Musk to pit style skills against upstart startup Science • 15 Apr 11:04	The BBC, the UN, and climate bullying Andrew's Mailbag Grab an umbrella: it's global wetting, now... Environment • 15 Apr 10:15	Scientist who named the black hole dies aged 96 Famous boffin was 'last of the physics superheroes' Physics • 14 Apr 15:31
Canada.gov blocks sale of space company to US Wants to keep timeshare rights on Arctic spy-sat Space • 14 Apr 13:15	US war robots in Iraq 'turned guns' on fleshy comrades Kill-droid rebellion thwarted... this time Rise of the Machines • 11 Apr 10:10	NASA's Phoenix closes on Red Planet Arctic touch-down on 25 May Space • 11 Apr 08:58
Soyuz capsule docks with ISS Expedition 17 runs on rails Space • 10 Apr 15:23	Boffins chomp noggin-nobbling narcotics Jekyll and super-intelligent Hyde Biology • 10 Apr 15:08	US will sky spy-sat to eye spy-sats Watch out for the watcher-watcher Space • 10 Apr 14:48
NASA gets intimate with Phobos New HiRISE snaps of Martian moon Space • 10 Apr 10:00	Minister: Waste wood is 'huge potential resource' Burning it could generate 0.7% of UK's 'leccy! Environment • 10 Apr 09:50	Biologists track down elusive lungless frog Backwards evolution in Borneo Biology • 10 Apr 09:31
Faces give away giveaways - psych profs' amazing claim Also: women don't fancy studs who get lots of sex Biology • 9 Apr 14:52	Japan turning itself into Cyberman machine civilisation Three million converted to undying robotoids by 2025 Biology • 9 Apr 09:03	Korea's first astronaut heads for ISS Historic 10-day gig Space • 8 Apr 12:44
Blog bully crows over BBC climate victory Emergent Truthiness Environment • 8 Apr 12:07	Defra moves to protect UK honeybees Consultation first step to concrete strategy Biology • 8 Apr 11:52	Apprentice contestant to offer Zeppelin trips above London Insert 'you're fired' joke here Science • 8 Apr 11:02

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